Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2000 21:45:20 +0800 | From | Steve Underwood <> | Subject | Re: drivers/telephony and winmodems |
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Hi,
Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi! > > > On other Unixen (and the Non-functional Telephony platform) every CTI vendor > > has their own interfaces (someone say "TAPI". I need a good > > laugh). With > > TAPI :-) > > > nothing to apply suitable pressure they are going to do the same on Linux, > > when they finally wake up and get serious about it. Some vendors (e.g. Pika > > and NMS) have had beta drivers for months, with little progress. It is unclear > > what their real intentions are. Dialogic looks like it is about to enter the > > frey, with more beta drivers. Again its intentions are unclear, but I'm damned > > certain a core intention is to keep everything as proprietary as possible. > > A strong framework being pushed from within Linux development itself might > > mitigate this somewhat. Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > Are not current "winmodems" serious competition to so-called telephony > devices? They tend to be cheap... > Pavel
Hey, Pavel, the socket on these Winmodems doesn't seem to fit the plug from my E1 line. Do you have an adaptor?
Seriously, most telephony hardware is multi-line (up to 4xE1 and 120 channels of voice processing per card currently), approved in lots of countries, and generally in a different class to a Winmodem. However, the DSP on the DSP-but-no-microcontroller Winmodems is adequate for many reasonable low bit rate vocoders (generally low bit rate == lots of DSP horse power needed for compression). Their low price makes reprogramming them as single line vocoders quite appealing.
Steve
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